Dividend Power Score
A single, comprehensive score designed to measure the true strength of a company’s dividend.
This score combines three essential pillars of dividend quality:
Consistency – Measures how reliable the dividend has been over time, focusing on payment history, stability, and the absence of cuts or suspensions.
Payability – Assesses the company’s financial ability to sustain its dividend, taking into account cash flow, earnings coverage, balance sheet strength, and overall financial health.
Growth – Evaluates the long-term growth of both the dividend and the company’s share price, highlighting businesses that consistently increase payouts while creating shareholder value.
Higher scores identify companies that have historically delivered dependable income alongside sustained dividend growth and long-term capital appreciation.
Company Overview
Hexagon AB (publ) is a Sweden-based global technology company specializing in digital reality solutions that integrate sensors, software, and autonomous technologies. The company operates primarily across the industrial technology, geospatial, and manufacturing industries, providing data-driven tools that enable customers to design, measure, analyze, and optimize physical environments and production processes. Its offerings support use cases ranging from precision manufacturing and quality control to urban planning, public safety, and infrastructure management.
Hexagon’s primary revenue drivers are enterprise software, hardware systems such as sensors and metrology equipment, and recurring software maintenance and subscription services. The company serves industrial manufacturers, infrastructure operators, government agencies, and natural resources companies, with a strategic advantage rooted in its ability to combine high-precision measurement with advanced analytics and automation. Founded in 1975 in Sweden, Hexagon evolved from an industrial conglomerate into a focused technology provider through decades of acquisitions and portfolio optimization, particularly accelerating its transformation in the 2000s and 2010s.
Business Operations
Hexagon reports its operations through two main business segments: Industrial Enterprise Solutions and Geospatial Enterprise Solutions. Industrial Enterprise Solutions focuses on manufacturing intelligence, metrology, and simulation software that help industrial customers improve product quality, reduce time to market, and enhance productivity. Geospatial Enterprise Solutions delivers geospatial data, positioning technologies, and public safety solutions that enable customers to manage assets, infrastructure, and environments at scale.
The company operates globally, generating revenue across both mature and emerging markets through direct sales and partner networks. Hexagon controls a broad portfolio of proprietary technologies, including high-precision sensors, industrial software platforms, and spatial data analytics. Major subsidiaries include Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, Leica Geosystems, MSC Software, Intergraph, and Vero Software, many of which operate with a high degree of autonomy while leveraging shared research, development, and commercial infrastructure.
Strategic Position & Investments
Hexagon’s strategic direction centers on accelerating digitalization, automation, and sustainability across industrial and public-sector workflows. Growth initiatives emphasize expanding recurring software revenues, integrating artificial intelligence into measurement and analytics platforms, and advancing autonomous and robotics-enabled solutions. The company has historically relied on targeted acquisitions to strengthen domain expertise and expand its software portfolio, while also divesting non-core assets to maintain strategic focus.
Notable past acquisitions include MSC Software and Intergraph, which significantly expanded Hexagon’s simulation and geospatial capabilities. Hexagon has also announced plans to separate certain businesses into a standalone entity, reflecting a strategy to unlock shareholder value and allow sharper operational focus. Details regarding the final structure and timing of this separation remain subject to regulatory approvals and market conditions, and some aspects are data inconclusive based on available public sources.
Geographic Footprint
Hexagon is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and maintains a significant global presence across Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific. The company operates in more than 50 countries, with major operational hubs in Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, China, and Japan. These regions support research and development, manufacturing, software engineering, and customer support functions.
International markets account for the majority of Hexagon’s revenue, reflecting its diversified customer base and global reach. The company maintains a strong presence in both developed and emerging economies, supporting multinational industrial customers and government entities while also investing in localized solutions tailored to regional regulatory and operational requirements.
Leadership & Governance
Hexagon is led by an executive team with deep experience in industrial technology, software, and global operations. The company emphasizes decentralized management, accountability, and long-term value creation, with a strategic vision focused on technological leadership and disciplined capital allocation.
- Paolo Guglielmini – Chief Executive Officer
- Ola Rollén – Chairman of the Board
- David Mills – Chief Financial Officer
- Burkhard Boeckem – Chief Technology Officer
- Mladen Stojic – President, Industrial Enterprise Solutions